Former President Bill Clinton, who will address the Democratic National Convention tonight, told NBC's Brian Williams why he feels President Obama needs to be reelected.
Former President Bill Clinton is set to eviscerate Republicans for being responsible for policies that led to the 2008 economic meltdown - and yet wanting voters to put them back in power.
“In Tampa the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in," Clinton will say. “I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators."
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He will also tout the president's vision for the country.
“The most important question is," Clinton will say, "what kind of country do you want to live in? If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility -- a we're-all-in-this-together society -- you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”


Cliton to the U.S. people...I did not have sex with that woman. Just more lies form a loser. Hey Bill do you remember some thing called NAFTA, where you sent all the U.S. jobs to mexico and canada?? You jack wagon you can't blame Bush for that. Leave the democrats in office and they will give it all away. Vote Romney.
Clinton is coming the Dems convention to remind people why Bush was not at or even mentioned at the Repugs convention.
Then people can decide at the end of these two conventions if they want to return to the peace and prosperity of the Clinton years or go back to the take care of the wealthy and blundering foreign policy of the Bush years...
Then ask anyone, "name one good thing done during the 2000 to 2008 or since the GOP took back the house in 2010 that was done by the GOP to help average Americans?"
Obama/Biden 2012!!!
And who controlled Congress during the Clinton years? These were the years of Gingrich's contract with America, which led to welfare reform.
Well that's just totally uncalled for. Just because the economic meltdown WAS their fault there's no need to rub their noses in it. I think he should just talk alot about Mitten's fancy prancing pony and not dwell on whether or not the Republican/Haliburton rape of the economy was legitimate or not. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster we didn't get preggers!
clinton fade away like jimmy would ya please. frank and dodd started this mess, and u sir didnt succeed as a president till newt and the boys took over congress with their ideas. unemployment when odumbo took office 7.8...now 8.3 and its been that way his whole term. gas was $1.82 now $3.50. the debt 9-10 trillion which yes bush added alot to. however now its 16trill and climbing. im tired a working my ass off to pay for a lazy idiot who has no intention of even looking for a job, paying for someones healthcare cause they cant keep their legs together and having odumbo tell me gas isnt that bad if i just buy a new car that gets great gas mileage. you know what why dont some of u odumbo lovers buy me a freakin new car. you want us to pay for all your self entitlements. LIBS blow!!!!!
Obama's programs are just like Solyndra. Throwing money at a busted enterprise didn't work, so you shut it down and move on.
It is worse than that. This was given out to reward his bundlers (thank you stimulus!). It made no difference that from the beginning, they knew they had to sell the solar cells for half of the cost it took to build them. Only a Democrat would think that is a winning solution. Probably because government works that way, they thought it would work in the private sector.
Anyone that believes Romney will be good for the country, should read this article.
A small cup of joe costs about $1.69 in most outlets, which means that for years to come, Dunkin' Donuts will have to sell about 2,011,834 small coffees every month – about $3.4 million – just to meet the interest payments on the loan it took out to pay Bain and Carlyle their little one-time dividend. And that doesn't include the principal on the loan, or the additional millions in debt that Dunkin' has to pay every year to get out from under the $2.4 billion in debt it's now saddled with after having the privilege of being taken over – with borrowed money – by the firm that Romney built.
Matt Taibbi - RollingStone Magazine
www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz25dqtE5qo
Well I guess Bain Capital, which gives most of its political donations to Democrats, including OBlamer, should have just let them go out of business.
RC like Rolling Stone is not a liberal rag....get over it.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
I still have to laugh at the people naive enough to think Clinton was impeached for just the Monica stuff.....They are not going to tell you the truth about the damage he did to this country.
obiden: has donated $1500.00 this year
Romney: has donated $7,000,000.00
whats the difference? last election the democrates got the highest donations for their election, and in return we got, .0000000000005% back.
Got to love this man! He is the one that signed the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA in 1993) that suck the jobs right out of the USA. One year after signing the NAFTA bill we went from a two billion dollars per each surplus with Mexico to a deflect of 16 to 17 billon dollars. Cheap labor and no import taxes sucked the jobs right out of the USA just as Ross Perot said it would. Millions lost their jobs all because of good old Bill. Then when you add the Free Trade Agreement with China and we all got to kiss our jobs goodbye. Thank you Former President Bill Clinton your the one that started this mess.
Let's see, the Dems controlled the House and Senate for the last two years of Bush's presidency. They refused to send up a budget because they didn't want to be tied to a budget. This started the 'continuing resolution' fiasco that has funded our government ever since. The last two years of Bush's presidency had the largest, by far, deficits. This is because the Dems refused to work with him. Remeber, it was Pelosi that said she would 'give president Bush no legislative victories".
However, even they controlled everything with O'Blamer, they still refused to pass a budget. Absolutely gutless and reckless!! O'Blamer sends up such garbage for budgets that not a single Dem will vote for it! WOW!! I guess O'Blamer did get bipartisian agreement! All against his ideas!
If we can get the politicians to at least hold a private sector job before office, instead of career politicians who know nothing about the Constitution or care nothing in defending it upon being sworn in. What these want is Marxist Socialism and taking from those who work to support those who won't for the most part.
This will end when they run out of the citizens money or they are voted out.
I like it
So, blowjob boy says the Republicans created his "mess"?
Hmmmm........ I wonder what kind of mess Jennifer Flowers,Paula Jones & Monica Lewinski had to clean up after he had his way with them not to mention the countless others we dont know about (once a cheater,always a cheater).
Let's see it was Clinton that taught everyone else how to cook the books. " I did not have sex with that woman!" Sure. I guess he was talking about Hilary. The GOP isn't blaming Obama, they're just saying he can't do the job!
Rigley: What worries me is that obama is doing the job he set out to do; he is still just a puppet with no plans but to follow the instruction on the teleprompter!!
Rigley
I may disagree with you there. Franklin Raines cheated us out of 90 million dollars by overstating earnings by the GSE. Then again Clinton may have taught him how to do that while he was Clinton's budget director.
Fact is we would be better off had Hillary won. Obama is a disaster, and Bill knows it - he's just being loyal to the party.
At the peril of our country.
Bill Clinton's repeal of the the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and replaced it with Risk-Based Deregulation and sub-primes. This is what led to the melt-down. With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, in the whorls and dots of his pen strokes William Jefferson Clinton was also symbolically signing the death warrant of Liberal America and its core belief in the level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party. But it was the gift of the pen to Sanford Weill and its assuming an honored place on the Wall of Me that rubbed salt in the wound.
Sandy Weill calls President Clinton in the evening to try to break the deadlock after Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the Banking Committee, warned Citigroup lobbyist Roger Levy that Weill has to get White House moving on the bill or he would shut down the House-Senate conference. Serious negotiations resume, and a deal is announced at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 22. Whether Weill made any difference in precipitating a deal is unclear.
Just days after the administration (including the Treasury Department) agrees to support the repeal, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former co-chairman of a major Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, raises eyebrows by accepting a top job at Citigroup as Weill's chief lieutenant. The previous year, Weill had called Secretary Rubin to give him advance notice of the upcoming merger announcement. When Weill told Rubin he had some important news, the secretary reportedly quipped, "You're buying the government?"
Just a note to add the national debt was just under 11 Trillion when Bush left office and as of this moment it is just under 16 Trillion. And what do we have to show for it high unemployment rates and no end in sight to the Obama's spending our money. We have already had our credit rating lowered for the first time in history. I guarantee that it will be lowered again thanks to the Government. Do you realize it has taken Obama only 4 years to add as much to the national debt as it took Bush 8. Great accomplishment Mr. President. Also, you squandered your first 2 years as President with the Healthcare bill and nothing else. If you had put as much effort into the turning the Economy Around you would be worthy of a second term. As James Carvelle said when he was running Bill Clinton campaign against Bush Senior, it's the Economy (stupid) as to why Bush, Sr. should not be re elected!
Just to remind you when Pres. Obama starts to blame Bush for all our problems.
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
Remember that day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney ) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment...to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie -starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy. Barney blocked it and called it a "Chicken Little Philosophy" (and the sky did fall!)
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!
So when someone tries to blame Bush...
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving the economy into the ditch.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for,
and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."
GOD BLESS THE SSA (Socialist States of America)
012 Democrat National Convention Schedule in little Charlotte,N.C.
(Joe Biden thinks it is
in Virginia)
4:00 PM - Opening Flag Burning Ceremony - sponsored by NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC Michelle Obama's poem "All this for a flag".
4:05 PM - Singing of "God Damn America" led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
4:10 PM - Pledge of Allegiance to Obama.Left hand on chest.
4:15 PM - Ceremonial 'I hate America' led by Michelle Obama.
4:30 PM - Tips on "How to keep your man trustworthy & true to you while you travel the world" - Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM -Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson seminar "How to have a successful career without having a job."
5:00 PM - "Great Vacations I've Taken on the Taxpayer's Dime Travel Log" - Michelle Obama.
5:30 PM - Eliot Spitzer Speaks on "Family Values" via Satellite.
5:45 PM - Tribute to All 57 States - Nancy Pelosi
6:00 PM - Sen. Harry Reid - 30-minute speech expressing the Democrat's appreciation of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and George Soros for sparing no expense, for all that they have accomplished to unify the country, improve employment and Romney’s Tax returns to boost the economy.
6:30 PM - Ethics in Politics - Nancy Pelosi
6:35 PM - How to blame some one else for your own incompetence - Obama
7:00 PM - Tribute to Kenya, Barack's home country - Michelle Obama (she said it herself)
7:15 PM - My Muslim Faith - Obama (he said it himself)
7:30 PM - How to get your birth control paid for by the taxpayers - Sandra Fluck
8:00 PM - How to speak with and Indian dialect when visiting a 7/11 - Joe Biden
8:30 PM - Airing of Grievances by both Clintons.
9:00 PM - "Bias in Media - How we can make it work for you" Tutorial - sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
9:15 PM - Tribute Film to Brave Freedom Fighters incarcerated at GITMO - Michael Moore.
9:45 PM - Personal Finance Seminar - Charlie Rangel.
10:00 PM - Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners and Bible readers.
10:15 PM- How to cheat on your taxes and still serve in government - Tim Geithner.
10:30 PM – Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for IRAQ & Afghanistan.
11:00 PM - Obama Energy Plan Symposium / Tire Gauge Demonstration / You too can get rich with Green Investment bankruptcies.
11:15 PM - Free Gov. Blagovich rally.
11:30 PM - Obama Accepts Oscar, Tony and Latin Grammy Awards
11:45 PM - Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish… Obama Presiding.
12:00 AM - Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher and Chris "He sends a thrill up my leg" Matthews.
12:01 AM - Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior.
You must have "connections", to get an advance copy of their schedule?
Maybe Monica Lewinsky will be in the crowd tonight smoking a cigar during slick Willy's comedy hour!! This is the guy promoting Obama and the female vote for the left? You gotta be shi.... me!! As crazy as some of the comments from the right, they don't even hold a candle to Clinton the porn hound. This guy has humped more hookers than the federal deficit!! Here's proof...look at his wife!! He should be hosting info commercials for stain removers to get C@$ out of interns' uniforms........how about that sssttticcckkkyyy!!!
NEVADANS cannot do 4 more of Obummer.
12% unemployment
housing market destroyed
skyrocketing food prices
PLEASE NO MORE 'HOPE & CHANGE' MR. PRESIDENT...NEVADA CANNOT AFFORD IT.
Where is Ross Perot? We NEED him NOW!!!
Still blaming Bush.
We all know George W was an awful President,
Obama is worse.
4 Years the first 2 years with COMPLETE CONTROL of the White House, Congress and the Senate.
If I was as bad at my job as he is at his I would be looking for a new.
LEAD follow or get the hell out of the way!
Obama seems incapable of doing any of them.
I voted Obama in 2008 and will NOT vote Democrat for a very long time!
Hey Clinton. When have you heard anyone say, "You're on your own", lying (I didn't have sex with that woman) p(utz?
Besides, lucky you listened to your REPUBLICAN Congress in 1994 that saved your presidency!!
Bernie the tragic part was Clinton was 50 she was 19 and then he lied under oath about it.
I though the liberals were not Christians by mocking conservatives' faith in Christ and love for God. Now we witness a different tone by the liberals this week. Hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Retfaa you can speak fact's until the cow's come home. You can never get anything through to the ignorant stupid liberals. They act as if stupidity is a virtue
Never try to reason with a liberal.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the liberal.
Stupidity is all they've got. And the liberal women can braid their armpits.